[mythtv-users] OT? Hardware Differences

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Apr 13 18:59:01 UTC 2006


Brad Benson wrote:
> On 4/13/89, *R. G. Newbury* <newbury at mandamus.org 
> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Both drives are on the same 80 conductor cable IIRC and the problem
>     drive has no OS, so 'swapping' them would be difficult to implement
> 
> 
> Actually, it shouldn't be hard at all.  Download and burn yourself a 
> knoppix CD.  Boot your desktop from the knoppix disk and run your hdparm 
> tests.  Shut down, swap the drives, boot back into knoppix and run your 
> hdparm tests again.

Actually I hadn't thought of using a live distro. I have a Rescue Is 
Possible disk which will do the trick.

Thanks.

Geoff


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